Since the fall of the Ottoman Empire, Turkey has seen a complete re-imagining of its political, cultural and social landscape. Burçe Çelik argues that technology has been integral to this transformative process, showing how take-up of modern technologies, such as the cell or mobile phone, has been embraced particularly by those who most easily absorbed new ideals about Turkey and modern Turkishness. While many studies on the cultural significance of mobile technology focus on its rational uses and incentives, Çelik draws on cultural theory, psychoanalysis and the philosophy of technology to explore the bonds, desires and dependencies that Turkish citizens have in relation to the cell phone. She ultimately links a collective post-empire melancholia with a desire to re-imagine a new, ideal Turkish national identity through technology._x000D_ _x000D_ 'Grounded in an expansive reading of cultural theory,Celik's approach is both interpretative and humanistic in outlook. Her book will provide a new way for scholars to consider mobile phones as cultural artifacts in whatever national contexts they are working. So even thought the study is grounded in Turkey, it is in many ways more portable than most transnational studies because its grounding allows for such a sophisticated and expansive work' - Jonathan Sterne, Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Art History and Communication Studies, McGill University.